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The Illinois Committee for Agricultural Education (ICAE) is a 13-member committee established by legislation and appointed by the Governor to advise both the governor and state education agencies concerning Agricultural Education K-adult..

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The Illinois State Board of Education is the state agency responsible for Pre-K through 12th grade education. Its primary mission is state program leadership, planning, approval, funding, and evaluation..

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The Illinois Department of Agriculture will be an advocate for Illinois' agricultural industry and provide the necessary regulatory functions to benefit consumers, agricultural industry, and our natural resources..

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TeachAg.net provides information about the Agricultural Education profession and encourages students to consider a career as an agriculture teacher..

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MyCAERT provides teachers with an integrated online system to Plan, Document, Deliver, and Assess Career and Technical Education instruction. .

NEW- Invitational Agriculture Education CDE

Friday, March 10, 2017

The FCAE team is excited to announce that we will be hosting a state Invitational Agriculture Education CDE this year at State FFA Convention! This event will give students a chance to learn more about a career in agriculture education.

General Information:

Each chapter can submit one entry for the 2017 Invitational Ag Ed CDE

Participants must wear official dress

Contest will be broken into two parts, Preliminaries (Lesson Plan) and Finals (Demonstration & Judge’s Questions)

The top ten participants (based on lesson plan scores) will be invited to compete in the finals on the Tuesday morning of State FFA Convention. Participants will be notified by May 1st, 2017 as to whether or not they placed in the top 10.

The top three contestants will be recognized on stage during the CDE presentation at State Convention.

Attached to this message are the full set of rules, rubrics that will be used, the required lesson plan template and an example of a lesson plan.

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